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This volume offers a fresh perspective on how Chinese cities were transformed or "Westernized" in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and how Asian and Western cities received Chinese influ...
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This volume offers a fresh perspective on how Chinese cities were transformed or "Westernized" in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and how Asian and Western cities received Chinese influences dispatched through the media of commerce and migration.
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Price: $32.00
Pages: 322
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Imprint: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Series: China Research Monograph
Publication Date: 01 January 2007
ISBN: 9781557292209
Format: eBook
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Cities in Motion: An Introduction

David Strand and Sherman Cochran

Part I: Organizing Urban Life

1. Grave Concerns: Bodies, Burial, and Identity in Early Republican China
    Caroline Reeves

2. Warfare and Modern Urban Administration in Chinese Cities
    Kristin Stapleton

Part II: Movements and Networking

3. Webs and Hierarchies: Banks and Bankers in Motion, 1900–1950
    Brett Sheehan

4. To the Countryside: Communist Recruitment in Wartime Shanghai
    Allison Rottmann

Part III: Importing the Modern City

5. Architects as Cultural Heroes
    Vimalin Rujivacharakul

6. Shanghai Fashion: Merchants and Business as Agents of Urban Vision
    Karl Gerth

7. Visions of Order and Modernity: Crime, Punishment, and Justice in Urban China during the Republican Period
    Klaus Mühlhahn

Part IV: Exporting the Chinese City

8. Exporting Homosociality: Culture and Community in Chinatown America, 1882–1943
    Madeline Hsu

9. Moving Bones: Hong Kong's Role as an "In-between Place" in the Chinese Diaspora
    Elizabeth Sinn

10. Charisma in Motion: The Compassion Relief Movement in Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, and the United States
    Robert P. Weller and C. Julia Huang

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